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In contrast with the now sober-seeming Reaganites, Trump has taken credit for the economy from day one.
The sweeping levies imposed on nearly every country mark a watershed moment in the president's effort to upend world trade.
President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics carries reputational risks for the ...
Earnings season marches on, with Eli Lilly among the big names yet to report this week. President Trump has said he will name replacements this week for Federal Reserve governor Adriana Kugler and [Bu ...
President Trump’s firing last week of the head of the United States’ Bureau of Labor Statistics is straight out of the ...
Thanks to cuts in federal government employment, America’s own economic data are becoming increasingly unreliable. As the New York Times reported late last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is ...
Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
Trump on Monday said he would be "substantially raising" tariffs on India, after imposing a 25% tariff rate against the ...
Our government uses the fig leaf of “cultural exchange” to flood the summer job market with tens of thousands of student ...
When I heard the news the authoritarian imbecile had fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics director for the crime of factual math, I dimly recalled something that George Orwell had written in a ...